On 8 June 2023, a man injured two adults and four young children at Le Pâquier [fr] city park, Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France, in a mass stabbing attack.

At around 9:45 am CEST, a man dressed in black clothing and a keffiyeh, carrying a knife around ten cm long,[3] entered a children's playground in the city park Le Pâquier.

[5] The assailant was forcibly stopped by an intervening Catholic pilgrim known as Henri or "backpack hero"[6][7] and was then arrested by armed police after shots were fired at him.

She said her son suffers from severe depression and claimed to AFP, the refusal of the Swedish authorities to grant him citizenship appears to have "driven him crazy".

[14] According to Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom James Cleverly, one of the children was a three-year-old British national on holiday in Annecy.

[22] The "hero with backpack", later identified as Henri d'Anselme,[23] was widely hailed in France and was personally thanked by the French President Emmanuel Macron.